- [Voiceover] SharePoint is a robust and complex product.In my opinion, Microsoft has made it even more complexby having multiple products that use the SharePoint name.There have been various versions of SharePointsince SharePoint 2000, but in SharePoint 2016,we say goodbye to one of the SharePoint productsand welcome some others.Let's get the goodbye out of the way first.SharePoint Foundation included, for free,really were paying for as part of the licensingwith Microsoft Windows Server was the most widelydistributed version of SharePoint.

SharePoint Foundation has been discontinuedwith the 2016 SharePoint releases, so there is noSharePoint Foundation 2016.It's easiest to think of the SharePoint Server productsas a single, integrated platform that can be hostedin two different locations, and it hastwo broad levels of capabilities.SharePoint Server 2016 is the On premisesversion of SharePoint Server.It's installed on your organization's serverswhether those are physical blades in a server room,or virtual servers like the onethat I'm using for this course.

And there are two versions of SharePoint Server,Standard and Enterprise.SharePoint Server 2016 Standard includesthe core capabilities of SharePoint, creating sites,having collaborative community, sharing content,content management, search, and so on.SharePoint Server 2016 Enterprise includesall of these and more, advanced search, business solutions,business intelligence, services that extendthe capabilities of SharePoint.SharePoint Server Enterprise also costs more per userthan SharePoint Server Standard, no surprise there.

SharePoint Online is the Microsofthosted version of SharePoint.Organizations can purchase SharePoint Onlinewith an Office 365 plan, or by itself.While the SharePoint Online and Office 365 plansaren't called Standard and Enterprise,they actually are all some version of Enterprise.Nevertheless, the SharePoint Online package choicesmirror the SharePoint On premises choices.The most expensive plans, the Enterprise plans,include the most features.

However, there are some amazing featureslike delve and video portals that are only availablein SharePoint Online, they are not available onthe On premises only version.So we have SharePoint Server 2016 Standard,SharePoint Server 2016 Enterprise,SharePoint Online in several different plans or flavors,and then one more item, SharePoint Designer.And there's is no new 2016 version of SharePoint Designer,we're using SharePoint Designer 2013,part of the Office family.

SharePoint Designer is installed on your local machineand it's used to customize SharePoint,to create and customize sites, to work with forms,to build workflows, to brand SharePoint sites, and tocreate those composites that we saw in the earlier slide.The world is more complex than this simple table.A growing number of organizations are running SharePointin a hybrid environment, which means they're using both anOn premises version of SharePoint Server,and SharePoint Online.

SharePoint 2016 was designed for this mixed environmentand there's increased support for hybridizationbeing added on a regular basis.The new features that you'll see in SharePoint 2016On premises, Standard, and Enterprise, were developedand tested in SharePoint online across the last year or so.SharePoint Server 2016 really was born in the cloud.Microsoft is committed to future versionsof SharePoint Server On premises, but SharePoint Onlinewill continue to evolve with new featuresadded on a regular basis, while SharePoint On premiseswill be modified as On premises software has been modifiedin the past, through patches and service packs.

So if you want to see the newest features of SharePoint,and what's likely to be included in the next releaseof SharePoint Server On premises products,you would look at the Enterprise versionsof SharePoint Online.

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